RE: Restricting/Increasing the no of FTP connections to the Linux box

["Sarika Inamdar " <sinamdar@cisco.com>]

We have waited for almost 15 minutes for the prompt. It does not show up
:-(
Am not sure if there are any logs for the same.

-Sarika

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Harris [mailto:jamie@jharris.homeip.net] 
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:41 PM
> To: sinamdar@cisco.com
> Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Restricting/Increasing the no of FTP connections 
> to the Linux box
> 
> 
> So long as your box has sufficient resources it should 
> support a pretty large number of connections "out of the 
> box", so you shouldn't need to change anything, certainly I 
> wouldn't expect you to have any problems with just a few connections.
> 
> When you say you can ftp/telnet to the box and you don't get 
> a prompt - how long have you waited?  Do you eventually get 
> in?  Also, is that anything in your system logs? (/var/log/?)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jamie...
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We have a PC which runs Linux 7.3. We have our application running 
> > which collects data from routers and the router FTPs the 
> data to the 
> > PC. The data collected is large.
> >
> > When we try to collect data for more than 2 devices, the PC 
> hangs .. 
> > In the sense, when we manually do an FTP to the Linux PC, the login 
> > prompt does not appear. Same is the case with telnet prompt. But it 
> > does give a message telling that the its connected to PC.
> >
> > So, we would like to know, if we can increase the FTP 
> connections on 
> > the Linux box ? If yes, which file needs to be modified ?
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > Sarika
> >
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